Obviously long wire/dipoles/inverted V's should be kept at right angles to each other and as far apart as possible. I am wanting to support two dipoles from the end of a yardarm (or whatever you call
sounds like poor quality steel, I was a municipal sign inspector in another life, followed sign companies, inspected their businesses, verified compliance with blueprints approved by our engineers, e
A municipal inspector would require the prints to go to the PEs working for the department. if they did not agree, and I doubt they would, they would strikeout portions and insert in red ink what was
as I said before, this is dredging up memories from about 5 yrs of inspecting sign foundations, erections, etc. I do know that our PEs - if challenged by the PE for the sign company, would simply req
I bought mine about 2 or maybe 3 years ago and the bottom pulley was fixed instead of being the present "loose" fix to the bolt on plate. everything else appears to be the same except for paint color
no, some of these ends are so mis shapen that I cannot get a male onto a female... so a mandrel to drive into the female to reset its "roundness" and a suitable tool for the male to get it so that it
cannot imagine this standing very long with much more than 30 mph breeze. incredible that it was just bolted to the concrete with what looked like 3/8" bolts. must have been guyed all to heck chas k5
to the Towertalk reflector... I have a Georgia Copper bar for a single point ground behind my gear using flexweave between each unit and the bar. the bulkhead is the MFJ wooden board product with a s
in another life I was a sign inspector and our in house plan checkers (PEs) said that welding weakened the steel.. there were a couple others but they were sort of arcane and I have since forgotten t
ok, FAQs don't say, drawings and pictures don't help... HOW do you get any accuracy out of one of those cannons? do you mount a red dot on it or is it just a matter of trial and error, iow, eventuall
Joe, some of the articles talk about using wet tennis balls but nearly all of them say to keep the weight of the ball down to 8oz or iow, empty to reduce stress on the pvc. tell me about your cannon'
Feeling sorry for those poor souls who moved out of the wrong side of the track neighborhoods and left their towers and antenna farms to go live in gated communities where they are trying to figure o
what is the difficulty in simply using a tinyurl instead? http://tinyurl.com/d5fwmy that took us down from 86 characters and prevented wrapping. you can go to tinyurl.com and drag an icon to your too
have had any experience in installing a tailtwister rotator near ground level by running a mast from the top of a Rohn 25 tower about 70 feet tall so that the rotator might be changed or worked on f
I do not know what I am talking about BUT I DO have this 52' HyGain crank up still needing to have its cables replaced, etc and so on. I do not plan to hand crank that sucker so your thread is very w
suggest you find one to play with first, that is blue on green lettering.. and SMALL so if you are the typical over65 ham, you are definitely going to need LIGHT source and CHEATERS to enlarge those
HEADS UP there are several models I THINK of the Boss HAWG to include the SUPER HAWG which has a 450/1200 rpm. I believe that the one in the tinyurl is a single speed and you really don't want to be
I of course know nothing about this as I am not a Civil PE or a Structural Steel geek... but your concern is not simple.. 1. is overturning moment.. 2. #1 is dependent upon the load on the exposed ma
buy, trim to length and install the MFJ stick. works on alum, single or double hung windows just fine. I dithered for a couple of years before I finally bought this, wish I had gotten this immediatel
personally, I threw money at it and moved on. it comes a little bit over length for my window but with sealant foam (closed cell. for the over lapped window problem, I rolled and stuffed small cell b